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This is the tale of one town. When dawn breaks in Ujantia, it is not chirping birds or crowing cocks that herald the new day but the wailing of hungry babies. Rarely do desperate parents have anything to silence the cries. Says Sultana Razia, rocking her infant girl: "I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bangladesh | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

Sometimes, of course, the nonentity is summoned up from the servants' quarters and invested with the master's power. When a President dies in office, there is the initial shock of the news and then, a moment later, a sort of secondary explosion. The hand slaps the forehead in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Strange Destiny Of a Vice President | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

Nobody will get through BEGOTTEN without being marked. In this nightmare classic by Edmund Elias Merhige, a godlike thing dies giving birth to a womanly thing, who gives birth to a quivering messiah thing; then the local villager things ravage and bury them, and the earth renews itself on their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Happy Birthday for The Kids of Kane | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

Given the laxity with which these rules are enforced, today's campus activists can march fists raised into any university office, plop themselves down on the floor and start answering questions from waiting reporters. When the hubbub dies down, they can read the books they brought with them--wouldn't...

Author: By Mark J. Sneider, | Title: Why I Like Dean Clark | 5/8/1991 | See Source »

In the show's climactic flashback and visual signature, audiences relive a humiliating moment from the nightly newscasts of April 1975: the last U.S. helicopter to leave hovers just above the embassy in Saigon, its rotors whirring and its engine aroar, while behind a barred gate a throng of dependents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Exit to the Land of Hope | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

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